gnome weather applet problem

I know I must have done something.....

The gweather applet used to work on the machine I'm using now. It works
fine on my machine at home (Debian testing like this one) and on my
64bit machine at work. Here, it never manages to make a connection.
netstat -ta never shows any connections (I've managed to catch them on
the other machines) and the applet simply reports "updating...".
I tried running gnome as root, same problem. I also tried another
program which contacts the same servers and that works fine.

You (well I) can't run gweather from the command line (to see any errors
on stdout) as it is a library component of gpanel.

I've reinstalled all the libraries that the gnome-applets package
depends on. I've rebooted the computer.

The applet still responds, it just seems not to be able to create a TCP
connection.

So finally my question...
how else do I get some information on what is (not) happening so I can
work out what to try changing?
--
Keith Blow
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